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Description

The in-kernel CIFS filesystem is generally the preferred method for mounting SMB/CIFS shares on Linux.

The in-kernel CIFS filesystem relies on a set of user-space tools. That package of tools is called cifs-utils. Although not really part of Samba proper, these tools were originally part of the Samba package. For several reasons, shipping these tools as part of Samba was problematic and it was deemed better to split them off into their own package.

News

July 26, 2012: Release 5.6

-Werror has been removed by default from CFLAGS

PIE and RELRO are enabled by default at build time

better integration with systemd by allowing the use of /bin/systemd-ask-password if available

better checks and warnings from cifscreds when used in environments that do not have a session keyring

May 30, 2012: Release 5.5

a bunch of fixes for compile time warnings and build breaks

some fixes in the libcap capabilities dropping code

remove unneeded mount.smb2 multicall code and other prep work for smb2 support